Expat bank robbery in Warsaw

telegraph/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11804393/British-man-arrested-in-Warsaw-trying-to-hold-up-a-bank-armed-only-with-paper.html

Takes the phrase "he drew a gun" to a new level....

Anyone know if it's not one of PF's Bully Brits?

Might be one of the PolAm liars pretending to be a Brit. If you feel bullied, you must feel intimidated. Not surprising as your ******** is exposed here daily.

Probably a British person of Polish extraction. After all, the robber doesn't live here so why else would he choose Warsaw? And not knowing having a working knowledge of the language would fit that.

So you are saying second/third generation poles from the UK have lousy polish?

Well, a pole in the UK is a wooden or metal support. A Pole is a Polish citizen and polish is what is used when we polish something up.

Au contraire. Many speak no Polish at all. Beyond 'lousy'. And those few who can understand a little often have very limited lexical control. Anyway, they aren't Poles; they're British people whose granny came from somewhere else, like thousands of others with a granny from Pakistan, Poland, Barbados etc. Perhaps the 'biro bandit' was one of those.


Indeed. Unless of course it's z Prus in which case we spruce it up. Perhaps the bank robber would have done better with a metal support.

This bank robbery thing is really intriguing me. Why did he come from Germany to Warsaw and why did he do it in such a ham-fisted way. He may well have a personal connection to Poland - hard to think he chose Warsaw for any other reason.

"jon357" you are a Pole that was born in Poland?

'MarekSlaska', it's an irrelevance. I'm still interested why he chose Warsaw...

Another "English teacher" like many members of this board ;) that needed some money and happened to be in Warsaw as it's a place where he would most likely find a job.

Best read the article before commenting. He lives in Germany. Interesting that he chose Poland though - there must be some connection.

By the way, you said that no one robs banks in Poland or its not worth the heist or that you do 10 yrs. This aint the USA pal. Read this book for a change:

empik.com/napadalem-na-banki-historia-prawdziwa-grek,p1206154980,ksiazka-p

And when exactly is that book set? In the 90's - back when banks still carried large amounts of cash....

Considering the penalties for bank robbery, let alone additional charges armed, no even semi intelligent thief robs banks. Stealing cars, b&e'ing warehouses, trains, etc. or robbing drug dealers is far less risky and carries far lower penalties

There was a terrible robbery a few years ago, near my (then) business premises. They lined the staff up trying to get them to open the safe (they couldn't; it was on a timelock) and executed them one by one. One of the staff was a young woman in her first week in the job.

Plus the most famous bank theft in Poland, back in the days of the Second Republic, when a gang cleared out the best part of the country's entire gold and currency reserves from the national bank...